Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.